#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers. The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees […] - ThreadSky

ArneBab.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy • 10 days ago

#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers.

The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees […]

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ArneBab.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy•10 days ago

And if you ask "why don’t they get more money?" We may have to consider that they are inconvenient to people with money. Because actual strong copyleft is: it ensures the freedoms of users *against* anyone who would want to monopolize those tools.

ArneBab.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy•10 days ago

It saddens me to see people putting the blame for that on the FSF instead of realizing the massive power imbalance between billion dollar companies with a vested interest in destroying copyleft and a dozen paid staff working to hold the GNU system together.

Not realizing that many developments […]

mattl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•10 days ago

@ArneBab Most people at the FSF aren’t working on GNU except keeping some infrastructure online. Much of the work is done by volunteers.

The reality is that the FSF has some good people but they’re hampered by the fact Stallman has ruined the FSF and copyleft for many of the people who used to […]

ArneBab.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@mattl I wrote a longer answer but deleted it again. Read the Stallman report in detail. Check how much of it would stand if you evaluated it with the law in most states of the EU.

About GNU OS: Android is not GNU. Can you update a stock Android?

mattl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@ArneBab I’m talking about Stallman’s professional behavior. His personal behavior is well documented.

Stallman’s weird insistence with language and phrases is incredibly off putting to most people. It is also cult-like behavior getting people to conform a lingo.

The whole GNU/Linux thing is […]

mattl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@ArneBab Refusal to use modern computing.

Weird attitude towards Linux in the early days that general purpose PCs were basically garbage.

The GFDL

Absolute refusal to do anything approaching useful with mobile devices

Weirdly paranoid about the web

Why are you asking me about Android?

ArneBab.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@mattl I’m asking you about Android, because Android is Linux without GNU.

And most Android devices are locked down in a way that’s incompatible with user freedom. Would be illegal if the system was licensed under GPLv3.

My kids can’t get rid of the pre-installed surveillance crap (nor can I […]

ArneBab.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@mattl And until 2015 avoiding cc by-sa was the only sane course of action for programmers using the GPL.

In 2015 cc by-sa was made compatible to GPLv3. Since then cc by-sa is safe to use.

mattl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@ArneBab there is no reason for GNU to be part of the conversation about Linux or Android beyond those operating systems or distributions of them may choose to include some GNU software or software from BSD or anywhere else.

Announcing you’re making an OS and then not making one doesn’t give […]

mattl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•10 days ago

I feel like I'm in a particularly unique place to all of this too.

I use the *GPL, I was a volunteer for GNU, as a filmmaker I wrote and produced a movie about GNU and the FSF with Stephen Fry, I was a consultant and then an employee at the FSF which required me to give up my life in the UK at […]

mattl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•10 days ago

And let's be very clear: GPLv3 was a huge international effort from lots and lots of people, it was not Stallman writing a new license in Emacs and putting it on the website.

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